u/Any-Acanthaceae2762

Hello my southern neighbors...

I was wondering, I live close to the border between Belgium and France and I wanted to know,
from french people, if it is more expensive to hire someone outside of France or not ?

Because I'm looking for like a weekend-job to do, and I was looking at Francetravail but with not a lot of luck.

Is me, being from another EU country, a big issue for french businesses or not really ?
Thanks!

the title, basically, why don't we have a debt ceiling just like in germany ?

All parties, whomever is in power, are from now on obligated
to reach a lower debt. Once the debt ceiling is reached, you
cannot go above it anymore.

for example, we're now at 108% or so, so, all parties from now on, till 2035 or so,
are not allowed to increase debt until it's under X% of debt-to-gdb ratio.

what's stopping them to implement a debt ceiling for the future ?

So, in a previous post, i asked whether the social welfare system and its costs were sustainable. Clearly, the majority said that it was unfixable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/1t6fnkp/so_did_we_fix_the_social_costs_yet_or_not

i was wondering, since i did do my tax returns, i once again saw this graph:

https://preview.redd.it/nzt8rqm4mr0h1.png?width=1082&format=png&auto=webp&s=3586baaeffe92db3aa65d26fae69204461ca1256

Do we know by how much the pensions are going to increase in, lets say, the coming 5,10, 20 years ? Also maybe the other costs, it would be interesting to see what the predictions are for the future for each item in this graph ?

How accurate are those predictions as well ?
anyone with an interesting source ?

Basically, there are more old people than young people,
and each year the imbalance becomes worse.

So, is there something that fixes this now ? I've heard that dewever stabilized some costs or something, but did it actually solve the increase in costs that demographics will cause in the future ?

If not, what would it take ? and why hasn't it been adopted yet ?

I was wondering, which mutualiteit would you choose if you're only concerned with
skin related issues. (i got a lot of acne scars on my back that i want to get resolved,
so i was wondering which mutualiteit would be best if we focus on this issue particularly.)

i mean from a financial point of view ofc, which would be optimal.

thanks

So i was philosphing, because i had nothing better to do.

farmers are complaining that prices are too low, because effectevily there but a few companies dominating the food processing industry, or whatever.

Also, EU/national regulation puts a bit of a pressure on what resources they can use. (think nitrogen/ amount of cows/m², pesticides, chickens/m², ... etc etc)

fine, EU/national goverment subsidies them such that they stay afloat.

my question is, why don't they force a minimum price on produce ?
there are already qoutas on imports before import taxes are levied, so
i can imagine that eventually, food producers must buy some food locally at a good price for farmers. (although i don't know how much the import tax is, nor if that would compensate for it)

so, farmers would be happy, governements would be happy (no need to subsidies?)
so, why not ?

please someone who knows more about this, enlighten my dumbass please